Esteve Corbera

Short BioEsteve Corbera is an environmental social scientist interested in the interface between environmental policy and human development. He completed his PhD in Development Studies in 2005 at the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom), where he also coursed an MSc in Natural Resource Management (2001). He has a postgraduate degree in Environmental Management by the University of Barcelona (2000) and an undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1999). Currently, he holds a 'Ramón y Cajal' tenure-track fellowship at ICTA-UAB and is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. He is also an alumni of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

Esteve is interested in the interface of climate, energy and land-use governance, including the analysis of agrofuels’ expansion, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and forest carbon offset programs, as well as other climate policy related instruments, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). He has undertaken fieldwork in Mexico, Belize and South Africa and is starting new research projects in other Latin American and African countries. His teaching addresses a wide range of topics and debates in the area of ecological economics, political ecology and global environmental policy at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the UAB (since 2011) and the University of Cambridge (since 2009), respectively.

He is a member of the International Advisory Board of The Journal of Peasant Studies, the International Society for Ecological Economics, the International Association for the Study of the Commons and a member of the Executive Committee of Catalonia’s Experts Group on Climate Change. Recently, he has been appointed as a Lead Author for the 'Sustainable Development and Equity' of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report (2010-2014). More details on the research and consultancy projects where he has been involved can be found in his personal webpage.